Will women be allowed to enter the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala or not will now be decided by a Constitution Bench, the Supreme Court said on Friday. The apex court after hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the ban on women's entry into the Sabarimala temple referred the matter to a 5-judge Constitution Bench.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, who met Civil Aviation Minister Anand Gajapathy Raju here on Wednesday, announced the state government will go forward to build an airport near the famed Sabarimala temple.

The Travancore Devasom Board (TDB) that looks after the affairs of the famed Sabarimala temple is firm on its stand that it does not wish to allow entry of females in the age group of 10 to 50 into the temple.

The Sabarimala temple management in Kerala has disallowed a three-day 'residential meeting' of chartered accountants after the organisers made all arrangements and posted the invitation on their website.

Two religious bodies have moved the Supreme Court supporting the PIL seeking entry of women in the historic Sabarimala temple in Kerala saying no ritual or custom can be used as grounds to discriminate against women in the matter of worship.